If the Mandos systemd unit file was not installed, it was still removed by the "purge-server" target. If systemd is not installed, this could mean removal of "mandos.service" from the root directory.
(Note: this was *not* used by the Debian package as a method of uninstallation; this was only ever done by the Makefile if "make purge-server" was called by hand. And a "mandos.service" file was presumably also unlikely to exist in the root directory.)
* Makefile (purge-server): Only remove systemd service file "mandos.service" if the same conditions exist which permitted its initial installation in the "install-server" target.